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American Latvian Association in the Unit
The american latvian association (ala) is the main representative organization for the latvian american community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $93,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $395,843 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $302,343 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE | $34,800 |
| LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS | $33,600 |
| WORLD FEDERATION OF FREE LATVIANS | $10,000 |
| WEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER | $8,500 |
| 2X2 LATVIAN SEMINARS | $6,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $243k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, $238k to organizations and $6k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GRANT FOR A NEWSPAPER · SUPPORT TALENTED UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN · TO SUPPORT ORPHANS AND LARGE FAMILIES
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LCLATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +334%
- WFWorld Federation of Free Latvians6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +55%
- WCWEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +295%
Funded once
- L5LATVIAN 50 YEAR OCCUPATION MUSEUM FUND SUPPORT GROUPone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -16%
- XLXV Latvian Song Festivalone grant, 2020 · $25k
- XLXIV Latvian Song and Dance Festival Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Support Latvian language and culture
Preserve Latvian culture, assist disadvantaged families, support youth, support summer camps in the USA and support museums and monuments in Latvia.
Preservation of Latvian Culture: to maintain and perpetuate Latvian culture and ethnic traditions; to sponsor research on Latvian history; to support cultural and educational events; to sponsor literary works
Provide support for the educational and cultural programs and activities of the World Federation of Free Latvians, Inc. - 501(c)(3) organization and other organizations with similar goals and purposes.
Facilities provided for Latvian language school, choir, folk dancing, concerts, lectures, exhibits, library, youth and senior citizens activities and the like
Ligzda is an organization that supports and promotes cultural, ethnic, religious, educational and artistic activities for Latvians in the Chicago area and wherever they may be. Ligzda is home to more than a dozen Latvian organizations…
Spreading Jewish Observance among the unaffiliated
To publish a newspaper in the lithuanian language covering us and world news as well as its culture and heritage locally and around the world.
To promote lithuanian culture and education.
To organize and unite persons of Lithuanian descent into Lithuanian community and cultural heritage and customs.
To Promote Lithuanian Language Culture.The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian imigrants in 1956 and presents operas in Lithuanian . It celebrated fifty years of existence in 2006 , and operates as a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latvian Organization Association of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is 2X2 Latvian Seminars. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LATVIAN CENTER GAREZERS ↗
- Who funds JOINT BALTIC AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds World Federation of Free Latvians ↗
- Who funds WEST COAST LATVIAN EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds LATVIAN 50 YEAR OCCUPATION MUSEUM FUND SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds LATVIAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds LATVIAN NATIONAL OPERA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds 2X2 LATVIAN SEMINARS ↗
- Who funds LATVIAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION TILTS INC ↗
- Who funds LATVIAN DIASPORA MUSEUM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds XIV Latvian Song and Dance Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the University of Latvia ↗
- Who funds Latvian Organization Association of Minnesota ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Latvian Association in the Unit funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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